Oracle Database Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 81 79
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +54
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 4 5 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.39% 0.42% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.42% 2.69% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 19
10th Percentile £378 £431 £416
25th Percentile £405 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% -15.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £466 £519 £700
90th Percentile £475 £526 £788
North West median daily rate £398 £471 £590
% change year-on-year -15.65% -20.13% +7.27%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

Oracle Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 165 186 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.24% 15.58% 17.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 123 228
10th Percentile £316 £375 £320
25th Percentile £368 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -9.50% -
75th Percentile £538 £534 £588
90th Percentile £586 £599 £675
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £480
% change year-on-year -5.56% -6.15% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £25.90 £32.88
25th Percentile £76.25 £31.75 £37.20
Median hourly rate £82.50 £41.25 £47.30
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -12.79% -32.43%
75th Percentile £88.75 £54.00 £60.63
90th Percentile - £63.45 £70.75
North West median hourly rate £30.64 £41.25 £46.75
% change year-on-year -25.73% -11.76% -1.45%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Oracle Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in Manchester

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Oracle Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Oracle Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) IIS
1 2 (50.00%) iPlanet
1 2 (50.00%) JBoss
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (25.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) DBA
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB DBA
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth
1 2 (50.00%) OpenID
1 2 (50.00%) SAML
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Database Security
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 2 (50.00%) CA Wily
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) AppDynamics
3 2 (50.00%) Broadcom
3 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 2 (50.00%) Splunk
4 1 (25.00%) Apple